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luvdemboomers
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Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving
#19025197 - 10/24/13 11:48 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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how ironic.
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: luvdemboomers]
#19025231 - 10/24/13 11:53 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pilgrams were shitty people anyway
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: luvdemboomers] 1
#19025241 - 10/24/13 11:55 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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People always trash on retailers for things like this, or at my work people often talk shit about "OMG I can't believe you already have Christmas stuff up!" and act all indignant about it. The funny thing is that retailers do these things based on customer shopping patterns and stuff. They wouldn't do it if customer demand didn't dictate that it is the most profitable thing to do.
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: nicechrisman]
#19025249 - 10/24/13 11:57 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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If it was an mandated holiday people would complain and talk about leaving the country
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: luvdemboomers]
#19025259 - 10/24/13 11:59 AM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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hasn't this been the trend the past few years? stores starting their sales on thanksgiving instead of the day after
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: claraclairvoyant]
#19025684 - 10/24/13 01:27 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah Wal-Mart has been doing that for at least a year or two, or at least I remember them opening up on the midnight of Thanksgiving for Black Friday sales
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luvdemboomers
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: nicechrisman]
#19025701 - 10/24/13 01:28 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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nicechrisman said: People always trash on retailers for things like this, or at my work people often talk shit about "OMG I can't believe you already have Christmas stuff up!" and act all indignant about it. The funny thing is that retailers do these things based on customer shopping patterns and stuff. They wouldn't do it if customer demand didn't dictate that it is the most profitable thing to do.
Umm where was I trashing on retailers? I assume that's what you meant.
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: nicechrisman]
#19025726 - 10/24/13 01:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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nicechrisman said: People always trash on retailers for things like this, or at my work people often talk shit about "OMG I can't believe you already have Christmas stuff up!" and act all indignant about it. The funny thing is that retailers do these things based on customer shopping patterns and stuff. They wouldn't do it if customer demand didn't dictate that it is the most profitable thing to do.
I call bullshit. People only buy Christmas shit once (per year, if that) and if one store puts it out earlier than the rest, they're stealing all Christmas sales from everyone else over the time that they're the only ones with it on display. So if Wal-Mart puts its Christmas shit out in October and Target waits until after Thanksgiving, Target has already put themselves behind in sales dramatically and won't catch up since people aren't going to usually buy Christmas shit twice in one year. It's companies competing for 4th quarter sales, not customer demand. And this effect has the Christmas merchandise being displayed earlier and earlier all the time. I remember when seeing Christmas shit around thanksgiving was shocking but now it's not even uncommon to see it around early October alongside Halloween shit.
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: luvdemboomers]
#19025730 - 10/24/13 01:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I guess I just assumed that from your post because you were pretty vague about what you were getting at.
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: luvdemboomers]
#19025732 - 10/24/13 01:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've seen Christmas stuff around the big box stores for WEEKS now. Not even halloween.
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: nicechrisman]
#19026058 - 10/24/13 02:29 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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nicechrisman said: People always trash on retailers for things like this, or at my work people often talk shit about "OMG I can't believe you already have Christmas stuff up!" and act all indignant about it. The funny thing is that retailers do these things based on customer shopping patterns and stuff. They wouldn't do it if customer demand didn't dictate that it is the most profitable thing to do.
You could argue retails are tailoring these patterns by doing things like this.
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luvdemboomers
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: snoot]
#19026097 - 10/24/13 02:36 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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snoot said:
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nicechrisman said: People always trash on retailers for things like this, or at my work people often talk shit about "OMG I can't believe you already have Christmas stuff up!" and act all indignant about it. The funny thing is that retailers do these things based on customer shopping patterns and stuff. They wouldn't do it if customer demand didn't dictate that it is the most profitable thing to do.
You could argue retails are tailoring these patterns by doing things like this.
I disagree.
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: snoot]
#19026109 - 10/24/13 02:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Chicken or the egg 
Egg btw
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: NWlight]
#19026292 - 10/24/13 03:10 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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this will be the first time in over a decade i will have black friday off from work.
that in itself is subject for a party.
fuck black friday though.
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: snoot]
#19026413 - 10/24/13 03:33 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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snoot said:
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nicechrisman said: People always trash on retailers for things like this, or at my work people often talk shit about "OMG I can't believe you already have Christmas stuff up!" and act all indignant about it. The funny thing is that retailers do these things based on customer shopping patterns and stuff. They wouldn't do it if customer demand didn't dictate that it is the most profitable thing to do.
You could argue retails are tailoring these patterns by doing things like this.
Yeah I thought about that while I typed that post. I'm sure it goes both ways, but the bottom line is that they wouldn't do it if people didn't buy it.
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: nicechrisman]
#19026708 - 10/24/13 04:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pretty soon they're all gonna have their black Friday sales the day after Halloween
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: FruitOfLife]
#19026896 - 10/24/13 05:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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the thing that really got to me when I worked in a store was the Christmas music that they play around that time
listing to it every day all day sucked I know the lyrics I swear that can drive you insane
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: watermelon mon]
#19026975 - 10/24/13 05:38 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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after at least 160 hours of the same looped shit.. yes.. that will def drive a man to drink
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: nicechrisman]
#19027017 - 10/24/13 05:46 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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nicechrisman said: People always trash on retailers for things like this, or at my work people often talk shit about "OMG I can't believe you already have Christmas stuff up!" and act all indignant about it. The funny thing is that retailers do these things based on customer shopping patterns and stuff. They wouldn't do it if customer demand didn't dictate that it is the most profitable thing to do.
Way to lump all customers into a single, amorphous moron completely and defenselessly subject to the simple mind-control techniques of profit seekers.
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Re: Target is starting their black friday sale on thanksgiving [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
#19027022 - 10/24/13 05:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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